I think the owner has been acting like an ahole from the beginning. When it first happened, it was supposed to be closed two weeks, and he was bellyaching about it being the busiest time of the year, because family come in for the holidays..........Well no - those two weeks would have been the first two weeks of December. No family comes in then.
Turns out now it's going to be closed longer, and he ups the ante with his sign.
He has expressed no concern for the 80 year old lady, who has major injuries. The only person to get hurt.